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Postcards from the past revisited - All is transitory, all impermanent (Original Post) packman Jul 2020 OP
Thanks for posting this pandr32 Jul 2020 #1
Already we are seeing this in Malls. Probably will see it in Big business complexes as well. Fla Dem Jul 2020 #2
I'm struck by how the last one used to have buildings PoindexterOglethorpe Jul 2020 #3
metal detecting that area onethatcares Jul 2020 #4
Ohhh, that could be interesting. PoindexterOglethorpe Jul 2020 #5

Fla Dem

(23,352 posts)
2. Already we are seeing this in Malls. Probably will see it in Big business complexes as well.
Mon Jul 20, 2020, 12:32 PM
Jul 2020

The pandemic has just hastened the trend many companies were going to; working at home. Companies will cut their costs by moving to smaller facilities were essential "on site" work is necessary. But for anything that is done on a computer can be accomplished off site

PoindexterOglethorpe

(25,750 posts)
3. I'm struck by how the last one used to have buildings
Mon Jul 20, 2020, 12:40 PM
Jul 2020

around the pool, and now trees have grown up to the very edge.

onethatcares

(16,133 posts)
4. metal detecting that area
Tue Jul 21, 2020, 02:30 PM
Jul 2020

would be great. The grounds probably have all kinds of artifacts and coins. It's funny but what I now call modern artifacts were what I grew up with as a kid.

Tokens, bank buttons, natural gas shut offs, and the like.

PoindexterOglethorpe

(25,750 posts)
5. Ohhh, that could be interesting.
Tue Jul 21, 2020, 10:06 PM
Jul 2020

Taking a metal detector to some of these abandoned places.

What's also remarkable is how far they have deteriorated in a relatively short time. In a hundred years you'd have a great deal of difficulty being able to find any evidence that those buildings were ever there.

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